From the site:
"Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible."
It uses 3D accelerated OpenGL, and is available for Windows and Linux. It contains 3 songs.
i read about it from the assembly.org site web site, and at Slashdot.
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to put it simply, Space Cowboy Online is an online jet flying game. it kinda plays similar to how StarFox played. SCO tries to play like any other online role playing game, except the twist is instead of walking around and killing stuff with swords or magic, you become engaged in dogfights with enemies in the sky or space while using machine guns, missiles, etc.
on May 25th, the SCO servers went live.
Update:
"Space Cowboy Online" became "Ace Online".
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Mozilla has just released the final version of Firefox 1.5!
You can get it here: http://www.mozilla.com/
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the uTorrent client was recently updated (or "µTorrent", as it's really called).
uTorrent is like many other BitTorrent clients, except for a few notable things. while trying to copy the features and look of Azureus (the most popular BitTorrent client) its is able to use significantly less resources.
while Azureus requires that the Java runtime environment and itself both be installed, uTorrent is a native Windows application, and doesn't require anything else installed. as of version 1.2, uTorrent is just 105K total in size. typical ram usage is around 6 megs or less. Azureus would sometimes take up 64-80 megs of ram, even when on no torrents!
you can get uTorrent here: http://www.utorrent.com/
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Microsoft has just released Visual Studio 2005 Express for free (free to download for the next year).
Visual Studio includes applications such as Visual Basic and Visual C# (C "Sharp"), which are used to create Windows applications.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
A Microsoft program manager put things a bit more clear than what the VS Express site states:
"Until November 7, 2006, we are promotionally discounting the downloadable versions of Express to free. This doesn't mean that the product turns off after a year, but rather that as long as you download the product before November 7, 2006, you can get it for free and you can use it forever."
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